{"id":60703,"date":"2012-08-11T19:42:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T00:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=60703"},"modified":"2012-08-11T19:42:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T00:42:25","slug":"hobbit-pubs-legal-problems-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/08\/11\/60703-hobbit-pubs-legal-problems-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobbit pub&#8217;s legal problems continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/08\/11\/60703-hobbit-pubs-legal-problems-continue\/hobbit-pub-copyright-row-legal-fees-fundraising-event\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60721\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-60721 no-lazyload\" title=\"Hobbit pub copyright row Legal fees fundraising event\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hobbit-pub-copyright-row-Legal-fees-fundraising-event-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hobbit-pub-copyright-row-Legal-fees-fundraising-event-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hobbit-pub-copyright-row-Legal-fees-fundraising-event.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> The landlady of\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Hobbit<\/span> pub in Portswood  is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">raising money<\/span> to help pay <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">legal fees<\/span> as wrangling over the small print of a deal made over copyright with Hollywood&#8217;s <em>Saul Zaentz Company<\/em> (SZC) continues.<\/p>\n<p>Pub landlady Stella Roberts said she could not discuss the negotiations as she had signed a confidentiality agreement but said<em> &#8220;We are very frustrated. We&#8217;re living in limbo here. We just want the whole thing finished. We just don&#8217;t know what to do. We&#8217;ve been advised to carry on trading as we were, because we haven&#8217;t got a lot of choice.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A letter from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">SZC<\/span> in March had asked the pub to remove all <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">JRR Tolkien<\/span> branding. The company later agreed to license Tolkien brands in order to resolve the dispute over the pub&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-hampshire-19211456\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The landlady of\u00a0 The Hobbit pub in Portswood is raising money to help pay legal fees as wrangling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,153,495,148,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-book","category-tolkien-life","category-miscellaneous","category-hobbit","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-fN5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60703"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60752,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60703\/revisions\/60752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}